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Administrative Measures For The Rehabilitation Of Mine Geological Environment In Shaanxi Province Margin

Original Language Title: 陕西省矿山地质环境治理恢复保证金管理办法

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Restructuring of the geological environment in the Province of Orientale

(Act No. 170 of the People's Government Order No. 170 of 20 April 2013, effective 1 June 2013)

Article 1 provides for the protection of the geological environment of mines, the prevention and management of geological disasters of mines, the regulation of storage, use and management of the Restructuring of the Geological Environmental Governance of Mines, and the development of this approach in line with the relevant provisions of the Regulations on the Conservation of the Environment of Hydrocarbon Natural Gas in the Province.

Article 2 of this approach refers to funds stored by the mining owner in carrying out its geological environmental protection and governance obligations.

Article 3 restores the guaranteed regime for the geological environmental governance of mines within the territorial administration. This approach applies to activities such as storage, use and management of bonds.

Article 4 Mining rights should be stored in accordance with the provisions of this approach.

Guarantees are governed by the principles of “Every enterprise, government regulation, exclusive storage, specialization”.

Minors are not exempted from their obligations to rehabilitate their geological environmental governance.

Article 5

More than the people at the district level are responsible for the storage, use and management of the Restructuring of the Geological Environment of Mines within the current administration.

The relevant sectors, such as the financial, auditing, etc. of the people's government at the district level, are governed by the bonds in accordance with their respective responsibilities.

Article 6. The amount of the bond storage is determined on the basis of factors such as the design of mining species, the scale of extraction, the length of time and the exploitation of mines for the geological environment, as approved, (see annex), the calculation of the formula as follows:

Annual storage: storage criteria x mining impact factors x mining scale

Total storage = annual storage x mining licence period

Governance costs established in accordance with the geological environmental protection and governance recovery programme for mines are higher than those established in the previous paragraph, and should be stored in accordance with the amount of the pledged funds established by the programme.

Article 7. Guarantees are stored in accordance with:

(i) For a period of five years (including five years), the mining licensor shall have a lump sum in full storage;

(ii) For more than 10 years (including 10 years) for mining licences, the first storage amount is not less than 30 per cent of total storage;

(iii) For more than 10 years of effectiveness of mining licences, the initial storage amount is not less than 20 per cent of total storage;

The previous paragraphs (ii), (iii) balances are stored on an average annual basis and are stored in full for the first year before the expiry of the mining licence.

Article 8. The approval of the bond, the storage process, in accordance with the mining authorization authority, is responsible for the sub-department of the territorial resource administrative authorities of more than the people of the district.

The Ministry of Land Resources has a nuclear mining licence, which is the responsibility of the territorial authorities.

The top-level territorial resource administrative authorities may entrust the lower-level territorial resource administrative authorities with the storage of the bonds.

Article 9. Mining rights should be secured by the approved amount of the guaranteed amount to the specified bank accounts.

The earmarked accounts are made available by the territorial authorities responsible for guaranteeing the storage of the Fund with banks established by the same level of financial administration.

The Article 10 new mines shall be submitted to the Earth's geological environmental protection and governance rehabilitation programme, and to the Restructuring Commitments for the geological environmental governance of the mines.

Expanding the scale of mining, changing the scope of mines or the manner of exploitation, the mining owner should submit a re-engineered programme on geological environmental protection and governance recovery of the mines, a letter of commitment to the geological environmental governance of the mines.

Article 11. Transfers of mining rights, the geological environmental protection of mines and the restoration of governance obligations. The transferee shall resubmit a letter of commitment to the restoration of geological environmental governance in the mined areas to fulfil the obligation to restore the geological environment of the mines.

Article 12 Minors fulfil their geological environmental governance obligations under the approved geological environmental protection and governance rehabilitation programme for mines, propose applications for identification, and, with the consent of the administrative authorities of the land-use resources, receive compensation and interest for the restoration of geological environmental governance in mines that are subject to the obligation.

The methodology and criteria for the recovery of engineering tests in geological environmental governance in mines are developed by the provincial authorities of the territorial resource administration.

Article 13 Guarantees shall be withdrawn according to the following provisions:

(i) A one-time governance has been completed and 90 per cent of the bonds have been extracted by the mining owner after experience is qualified.

(ii) Sub-time implementation of governance works, with a payment of credits based on certified governance costs, which may not exceed 80 per cent of the deposit bonds.

The quality of the work has not been raised within three years from the date of the eligibility of the engineering tests, and the remaining payments and interest are fully drawn by the mining owner.

Article 14. Minors may be entitled to receive a letter of credit for the clearance of geological environmental governance works in the mines and to the authorities of the Land Resources Administration. The authorities of the Land Resources Administration shall notify, within 30 working days of the date of the issuance of the letter of eligibility for the clearance of geological environmental governance works in the mined areas, the licensee of the depository bonds in writing, in accordance with the provisions.

Article 15 is not in compliance with the obligation to restore governance or with the lack of qualifications in the process of recovery, and is subject to a letter of credit from the receiving body for the recovery of the geological environment of the mines.

The mining power is still less than required after the delay in governance or the time-bound governance, and its depository bonds and interest will not be extracted by the Land Resources Administration authorities, which, by law, entrusts the governance of others, the costs of governance from bonds and interest, are not partly borne by the mining owner.

Article 16 of the Territorial Resources Administration at the district level should report operational authorities on a case-by-step basis on the storage, extraction, use, management of the previous year's pledges.

Article 17 Minors are not granted a slot reserve and the territorial resource administrative authorities are responsible for the period of time storage and fine of up to 30,000 dollars.

In violation of this provision by the staff of the territorial authorities at the district level of the resources of the land at the district level, the negligence, abuse of authority, provocative fraud are committed by their authorities or inspectorate to the relevant responsible person in accordance with the law, which constitutes an offence punishable by law.

Article 19, which was implemented on 1 June 2013.